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THE DAY BOOK W. D. COCHRAN EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. 600 SO. PEORIA ST. CHICAGO, I LI TV, -J. -.... Editorial, Monroe 353 leiepnoneS Circulation. Monroe 3S28 SUBSCRIPTION By Carrier In Chicago. 30 cents a Month. By Mall. United States and Canada, $3.00 a Year. Entered as second-class tnatter April 31. 1914. at the postoffice at Chicago, III., under the Act of March 3. 1879. employes mean to something like the 70,000 men, women and children in volved. I wonder if they ever think at all of men, women and children as something different from insurance, interest and taxes. The people of Chicago are paying $33,000 a year of Busby's salary. What do THEY get for it? STREET RAILROADING. Len Busby, street railway president, sol emnly affirms that a motorman or conductor isn't worth the maximum Chicago wage of 32 cents an hour until he has slaved for the company five years. Yet Len himself was noth ing but a lawyer until 1912 when he glued himself to the job of president, and hasn't yet served four years. And Len, the lawyer-president, is gather ing in a salary of $60,000 a year, with a chairman of the board, Hank Blair, pulling down $30,000 a year, and a guy named Roach raking off $20,000 a year for advising and assisting Len as president. How many other salaried men are on the payroll and doing most of the hard work was not revealed at the hearing before the arbitrators. But the lav firm in which Busby's name appears seems to draw its share of milk from the traction udder, pull ing down something like $30,000 a year for merely lawyering. As nearly as I can figure it out, an important part of the work Busby, Blair and Roach are paying them selves $110,000 a year for, and the lawyers $30,000 or $40,000 a year be sides, is to show the company how to keep men working for them without paying the men more than 32 cents an hour. I wonder if the Busbys, the Blairs and the Roachs ever think of how much a few cents additional wage to PUBLIC OWNERSHIP. Council has started on the route that will lead I to home rule, without waiting to get ! it from the state legislaure as a hand . out. Chicago can control her public utilities by owning and operating them for the service and benefit of the people instead of for the profit of private owners. And -now is the time to push the Public Ownership league in every section of the city in order to back up the council in every move it makes to accomplish public ownership. The people can get what they want if they organize and go after it. L CHICAGO BUNKED. Some folks thought there was a prospect ot puo lic ownership in the 1907 street rail way ordinance. Now they can begin to see how they were bunked. The valuation of the property at that time was fixed at $55,000,000. Now we are told it would cost the city $145, 000,000 to take over the lines. Ac cording to that the valuation jumps over $11,000,000 a year, while the city's 55 per cent amounts to two or three millions. As a fixer for public ownership Walter Fisher is sure some fixer. SHORT ONES Oddly enough, whenever a certain interest protests strenuously against a vicious bit of legislation we usually discover that the interest protesting hardest is the one that made vicious legislation necessary. An American, it develops, invented the idea of spouting chlorine gas into 1 the enemy's trenches and we judge -' 'ml in Tin fnfilart